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Context Included: Obama on Iran
Posted on August 27, 2008
Summary McCain’s new ad, released on Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention, quotes Obama saying that Iran is a "tiny" country that "doesn’t pose a serious threat." It implies that he fails to see Iran’s threat to Israel. The picture changes dramatically when Obama’s full quotes are considered: Obama …
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Obama and ‘Infanticide’
Posted on August 25, 2008
Summary Anti-abortion activists accuse Obama of "supporting infanticide," and the National Right to Life Committee says he’s conducted a "four-year effort to cover up his full role in killing legislation to protect born-alive survivors of abortions." Obama says they’re "lying." At issue is Obama’s opposition to Illinois legislation in 2001, …
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Reed Reality
Posted on August 22, 2008
Summary An Obama ad in Georgia ties McCain to former Christian Coalition executive Ralph Reed and the Abramoff lobbying scandal. It doesn’t give a full picture. The ad says that Reed "is now raising money for McCain’s campaign." But McCain has said, "I neither seek nor want his support." It …
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Rezko Reality
Posted on August 22, 2008
Summary On the defensive over the extent of multiple McCain homes, the GOP candidate strikes back. But his TV spot gives an oversimplified and misleading account of how Obama bought his own $1.6 million house in Chicago. The ad says Chicago power broker Tony Rezko got "political favors" including …
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Born in the U.S.A.
Posted on August 21, 2008 , Updated on November 1, 2008; April 27, 2011
Summary In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document’s authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a …
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Distorting McCain’s Remarks
Posted on August 19, 2008
Summary Obama’s campaign is running a TV ad in Indiana that asks the question: "How can John McCain fix the economy, when he doesn’t think it’s broken?" But the ad uses quotes from McCain that are old and taken out of context: The ad shows McCain saying, "I don’t believe …
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Saddleback Bloopers
Posted on August 18, 2008
Summary At a nationally televised forum at a mega-church in Southern California, we found these misrepresentations: Obama claimed that "I worked with John McCain" on ethics legislation. In fact, the two worked together for barely a week, after which McCain accused Obama of "partisan posturing" and added, "I won’t …
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Distorting the DHL Deal
Posted on August 15, 2008
Summary Ads from the AFL-CIO and the Obama campaign claim that McCain is partly to blame for the loss of more than 8,000 jobs in Ohio. They paint a false picture. There's at least some truth in both ads: German-based DHL announced a deal that could result in 8,200 lost …
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The Truth About Tire Pressure
Posted on August 14, 2008
Summary We are issuing a split decision in the Obama vs. McCain dispute over whether proper tire inflation could save as much oil as expanded offshore drilling is likely to produce. We find that proper tire inflation could save more than a billion gallons of fuel per year and …
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Waste Worries
Posted on August 14, 2008
Summary An Obama ad running in Nevada accuses McCain of favoring storage of waste from nuclear power plants at Yucca Mountain, which is the government plan, while not wanting the waste shipped through his home state of Arizona. The ad uses a clip of a 2007 interview of McCain, in …
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